It begins with the political and cultural background of Korea, Japan and China, explores the diplomatic impasse that led to the war, describes every major incident and battle from 1592 to 1598 and introduces a fascinating cast of characters along the way. The Imjin War is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of this cataclysmic event, so little known in the West. The resulting seven years of fighting, known in Korea as Imjin Waeran, the 'Imjin invasion,' after the year of the water dragon in which it began, dwarfed contemporary conflicts in Europe and was one of the most devastating wars to grip East Asia in the past thousand years. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, and then the whole of Asia. "In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Koreas southern tip.
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